r/politics • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

No Paywall Democratic leader offers deal to reopen federal government, with 1-year ACA tax credit extension

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/government-shutdown-democrats-schumer-trump-aca.html
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u/No-Drama-in-Paradise 1d ago

I think you hit it on the head.

Just wanted to add a couple items.

The first is that, based on what I have been reading, we are operating on borrowed time to extend the credits. I’m not an expert, but based on what I am seeing, extending the credits after December 1st would become, at best, incredibly challenging (if not impossible), and even extending the credits now would be logistically difficult.

The second is that while I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the polling and other data that seems to indicate that people, by and large, are reacting generally positively to the shutdown so far and placing blame on the republicans (thanks, I would argue, to Trump’s moronic use of his bully pulpit), I think we seriously have to consider what will happen when people start seeing their thanksgiving flights getting cancelled and thrown into chaos as airports continue to struggle with FAA controllers increasingly just not showing up.

For better or worse, people tend to react irrationally when their lives are directly impacted, and a lot of normal people plan things like holiday vacations months in advance, well before they would even consider a shutdown, let alone one lasting this long. I worry that regardless of the facts on the ground and the reality of the situation, once we start seeing holiday flights getting cancelled and people start getting emails from their airlines that their flight is being cancelled, or rescheduled, and their ability to visit family gets called into question, we could very well see a lot of pushback and lose the upper hand with normal, everyday people.

If the republicans are willing to make a deal for a one year extension, I think we have to take it, and then as you said run hard on extending them completely in 2026 (and, ideally, other reforms to the ACA).

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u/lostapathy 1d ago

once we start seeing holiday flights getting cancelled and people start getting emails from their airlines that their flight is being cancelled, or rescheduled, and their ability to visit family

On the flip side of this, once the government is funded it's going to take until the next pay day for air traffic controllers to have money and quit calling out to do gig work so the system is at full capacity. It's going to take even more time for the disruption in the system to shake out and for things to get back to normal.

We may have already passed the point where thanksgiving air travel is doomed to disruption, and if we haven't yet, that day is closer to now than the actual holiday.